Copies of audio tapes of black music and related photographs gathered by Work from 1935 to 1942 that were used for a radio program Roots of American Popular Music which aired over National Public Radio in February 1989.
Copies of commercial discs, test and unissued discs and radio transcription discs, ca. 1920s-l950s, accumulated from various sources by Nashville gospel music researcher Doug Seroff. Tapes consist of harmony selections, primarily religious songs, by a wide variety of Negro quartets.
Copies of a 13 part radio series developed by Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY and broadcast over public radio, 1989-1990. The series, Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country Music and Old-Time Music, was developed to document women's role in the development of country music. The broadcasts focus on the life stories of the Powers Family, Phyllis Marks, Jean Ritchie, Ola Belle Reed, Patsy Montana, Girls of the Golden West (Dolly and Millie Good), Martha Carson, Etta Baker, Ramona Jones, Wilma Lee Cooper, Matokie Slaughter, the Carter Family and Hazel Dickens.